Authentic baseballish?

[Jonathan Lighter]

As far as I know it's really from ca1898, though I suspect it was a
intended as a bar-room (or cathouse) spoof when printed.   I encountered it
online toward the end of HDAS work, so Vols. 1 & 2 don't cite it.

JL

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